One-step synthesis of nitrogen-doped graphene supported PdSn bimetallic catalysts for ethanol oxidation in alkaline media

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (23) ◽  
pp. 19314-19321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Feng ◽  
Duan Bin ◽  
Ke Zhang ◽  
Fangfang Ren ◽  
Jin Wang ◽  
...  

In this paper, a facile chemical reduction method was employed to synthesize bimetallic PdSn nanocatalysts, and the nitrogen-doped graphene (N-G) has been used as a conductive support material for PdSn catalysts.

Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florent Bourquard ◽  
Yannick Bleu ◽  
Anne-Sophie Loir ◽  
Borja Caja-Munoz ◽  
José Avila ◽  
...  

Graphene-based materials are widely studied to enable significant improvements in electroanalytical devices requiring new generations of robust, sensitive and low-cost electrodes. In this paper, we present a direct one-step route to synthetize a functional nitrogen-doped graphene film onto a Ni-covered silicon electrode substrate heated at high temperature, by pulsed laser deposition of carbon in the presence of a surrounding nitrogen atmosphere, with no post-deposition transfer of the film. With the ferrocene methanol system, the functionalized electrode exhibits excellent reversibility, close to the theoretical value of 59 mV, and very high sensitivity to hydrogen peroxide oxidation. Our electroanalytical results were correlated with the composition and nanoarchitecture of the N-doped graphene film containing 1.75 at % of nitrogen and identified as a few-layer defected and textured graphene film containing a balanced mixture of graphitic-N and pyrrolic-N chemical functions. The absence of nitrogen dopant in the graphene film considerably degraded some electroanalytical performances. Heat treatment extended beyond the high temperature graphene synthesis did not significantly improve any of the performances. This work contributes to a better understanding of the electrochemical mechanisms of doped graphene-based electrodes obtained by a direct and controlled synthesis process.


Nanoscale ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 450-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Hu ◽  
Ruirui Zhang ◽  
Lingzhi Wei ◽  
Fapei Zhang ◽  
Qianwang Chen

A facile strategy to fabricate FeCo nanocrystals with nitrogen-doped graphene shells has been designed, which involves one-step thermal decomposition of Prussian blue analogue (PBA) Fe3[Co(CN)6]2spheres.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianwei Su ◽  
Yang Yang ◽  
Guoliang Xia ◽  
Jitang Chen ◽  
Peng Jiang ◽  
...  

Abstract The scalable production of hydrogen could conveniently be realized by alkaline water electrolysis. Currently, the major challenge confronting hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is lacking inexpensive alternatives to platinum-based electrocatalysts. Here we report a high-efficient and stable electrocatalyst composed of ruthenium and cobalt bimetallic nanoalloy encapsulated in nitrogen-doped graphene layers. The catalysts display remarkable performance with low overpotentials of only 28 and 218 mV at 10 and 100 mA cm−2, respectively, and excellent stability of 10,000 cycles. Ruthenium is the cheapest platinum-group metal and its amount in the catalyst is only 3.58 wt.%, showing the catalyst high activity at a very competitive price. Density functional theory calculations reveal that the introduction of ruthenium atoms into cobalt core can improve the efficiency of electron transfer from alloy core to graphene shell, beneficial for enhancing carbon–hydrogen bond, thereby lowing ΔGH* of HER.


Author(s):  
Daniel Ramirez-Gonzalez ◽  
Jose de Jesus Cruz-Rivera ◽  
Hugo Tiznado ◽  
Angel Gabriel Rodriguez-Vazquez ◽  
Ivan Guillen-Escamilla ◽  
...  

In this work, we propose an easy and a low cost method for the synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped Graphene NDG and its silver nanowires NW functionalization NWGN. The synthesis was performed using the improved graphene oxide method, chemical reduction of graphene oxide in the presence of caffeine as green nitrogen source and the subsequently the silver nanowires growth in the surface, by the chemical reductions salts in the presence of NG. Achieving a homogeneous growing (coating) of graphene sheets. The samples were analyzed using conventional characterization techniques: SEM-EDX, XRD, FT-IR, RAMAN, TEM, HRTEM, STEM and XPS.


Catalysts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang Dong ◽  
Qingqing Lu ◽  
Haihui Jiang ◽  
Chunfang Li ◽  
Yingying Gong ◽  
...  

Porous coral-like Pd/C3N4-C nanocomposites are fabricated by a simple one-pot chemical reduction method. Their electrocatalytic performance is ~50% higher than a carbon-loaded palladium electrocatalyst (Pd/C) in alkaline media. This confirms that the glucose electrooxidation and sensing performance of a Pd/C can be improved by the synergy of graphitic carbon nitride (C3N4), though C3N4 exhibits poor electrical conductivity. Compared to Pd/C, the size of Pd nanoparticles in Pd/C3N4-C decreases. As a result, the activity of Pd/C3N4-C is enhanced due to the higher dispersion and the synergistic effect. Pd/C3N4-C presents a rapid response and high sensitivity to glucose. The sensitivity for glucose sensing at Pd/C3N4-C is 3.3 times that of at Pd/C in the range of 0.001–10 mM. In the lower range of 0.001–1 mM, the sensitivity at Pd/C3N4-C is ~10 times greater than Pd/C.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Kumar ◽  
Xinchun Yang ◽  
Qiang Xu

Ultrafine and uniformly dispersed bimetallic Pt–Ni nanoparticles (NPs) have been immobilized on novel 3-dimensional N-doped graphene networks (NGNs) by a facile wet chemical reduction method, which exhibit extremely high catalytic activity for the dehydrogenation of hydrazine hydrate.


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